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The Naked Constitution Podcast – The Executive Branch

Another episode of my podcast is now live on Ricochet.com. This episode is all about the presidency — or what’s left of it. Host Adam Freedman welcomes two of our most esteemed contributors: Law Talk’s Professor John Yoo (and Berkeley Law) and Professor Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution. The president still matters, of course, but maybe not as much as the Framers intended. We ask where does “the buck stop” now that Congress has dispersed executive powers among dozens of beloved “independent administrative agencies.” We explain why the “unitary executive” is not a crazy theory conjured up by Dick Cheney, but is actually the originalist answer to administrative tyranny. And finally, we cross swords on presidential war powers, with Professor Yoo presenting his robust defense of executive initiative – sending Adam into retreat.

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At a time when our liberties are under attack by politicians and judges who treat the Constitution as a decorative prop, Adam Freedman delivers a much needed counterattack. In The Naked Constitution, Freedman demolishes the bogus theories taught at elite law schools and explains how we can return to the Founders’ principles of individual liberty and limited government.